I don't know about you, but I couldn't wait to finish Mass Effect 3. Sure, I wanted to close out the battle against the Reapers, but I played to complete the campaign in BioWare's threequel to see where all the characters I'd grown to know wound up.

Oddly, many other people who bought Mass Effect 3 didn't feel the same way.

In a talk given at GDC Europe, BioWare's Fernando Melo revealed that only 42% of players completed Mass Effect 3 in the five months since its release. 56% of players finished Mass Effect over the same time period. Melo said that the EA dev studio saw a spike in ME2 completions as fans geared up for the release of its follow-up.